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              BrowserGap began in the winter of 2012, with a RFQ for some price data to be scraped from 
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              This project grew into a general web scraper product, which came to adopt the goal of 
              being deliverable without download, through any browser, to any one. You could scrape
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              That requirement necessitated running a browser somewhere other than on the client which 
              a simple web app could then talk to, and provide the simulation of being in the browser, 
              when in fact one was only controlling and viewing a remote browser.
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              As the competition for web scrapers thickened, and the market landscape sloped toward
              two peaks: enterprise and free, we decided to pivot to a more sustainable niche.
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